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How Vent Art Helped Me Process My Thoughts & Emotions

I'm aware that this post is more on the personal side, but I never planned to shy away from more serious and personal topics that might help another artist.

To get into it I will start firstly by saying that vent art is a healthy way to process thoughts and emotions in my opinion. 

I'm not sure if it's just me or if other artists struggle with this, but I have a hard time expressing my emotions sometimes if it's not along the lines of a panic/anxiety attack. I sometimes seem unempathetic or emotionless to people sometimes, especially if they'd gotten close to me and aren't watching me mask with a light-hearted tone of behavior. 

My main way of expressing myself became my art and drawings. I most commonly draw myself as two different people clashing. I'm not 100% why I use that theme the most, but my best guess is to show how confusing it feels a lot of the time. My thoughts, ideas, impulses, and emotions are always like two different people fighting to be reality and such....

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